davieG Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GET US BACK UP - OLLIE CITY NEWS BY ANDY MANN WWW.THEBLUEARMY.CO.UK 08:30 - 10 May 2008 Ian Holloway will appeal for the chance to lead Leicester City's League One challenge when he holds showdown talks with Milan Mandaric. Holloway is set to meet the City chairman on Monday, where his fate following relegation to League One is likely to be decided. Holloway will state his case to lead City next season, pointing to the Championship promotion he won with QPR in 2004 as evidence that he knows what it takes to get out of the division. Holloway said: "I have a record of getting people back out of this division. "I have done it once before and I am desperate for the chance to do it here. "These sort of decisions are not in my hands. There are bigger things at stake than Ian Holloway, it's not about my future. This is about Leicester City." The Mercury reported earlier this week that fans' groups are split on whether Holloway should remain as City boss, while 61 per cent of supporters in an online poll at www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk say he should go. Despite the question marks hanging over his Walkers Stadium future, it seems Holloway has already begun planning for next season. Holloway said he has made changes to City's pre-season plans in a bid to get the players' "mind-set right" for the club's first ever season in the third division. And that will include putting the players through a punishing pre-season schedule at an army boot camp. Holloway said: "We had a meeting about pre-season. Looking at that, we were going to go to a place that is a bit too expensive now. "I don't feel that's the right sort of mind-set. "We are talking about going to a different place, earlier, to make sure we get the mind-set right of our team and our players. "The luxurious part of it has gone. We are going to go to an army boot camp to work our socks off and generate what we are going to be up against. I have gone in and done that." It must be hoped it will help address what Holloway says was a lack of team spirit that cost City dearly in their failed relegation battle. Holloway told BBC Sport: "It's always the team with the worst spirit and fight that goes down. "I have to say, very harshly, it must have been us. That's unacceptable." Meanwhile, Iain Dowie, the former Charlton, Crystal Palace and Coventry manager who has been heavily linked with City over the last 15 months, is one of the favourites for the vacancy at QPR. Dowie, who had a brief spell as caretaker-manager at Loftus Road in 1998, is being tipped to take over following coach Luigi De Canio's exit.
Kilworthfox Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GET US BACK UP - OLLIE CITY NEWS BY ANDY MANN WWW.THEBLUEARMY.CO.UK 08:30 - 10 May 2008 Ian Holloway will appeal for the chance to lead Leicester City's League One challenge when he holds showdown talks with Milan Mandaric. Holloway is set to meet the City chairman on Monday, where his fate following relegation to League One is likely to be decided. Holloway will state his case to lead City next season, pointing to the Championship promotion he won with QPR in 2004 as evidence that he knows what it takes to get out of the division. Holloway said: "I have a record of getting people back out of this division. "I have done it once before and I am desperate for the chance to do it here. "These sort of decisions are not in my hands. There are bigger things at stake than Ian Holloway, it's not about my future. This is about Leicester City." The Mercury reported earlier this week that fans' groups are split on whether Holloway should remain as City boss, while 61 per cent of supporters in an online poll at www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk say he should go. Despite the question marks hanging over his Walkers Stadium future, it seems Holloway has already begun planning for next season. Holloway said he has made changes to City's pre-season plans in a bid to get the players' "mind-set right" for the club's first ever season in the third division. And that will include putting the players through a punishing pre-season schedule at an army boot camp. Holloway said: "We had a meeting about pre-season. Looking at that, we were going to go to a place that is a bit too expensive now. "I don't feel that's the right sort of mind-set. "We are talking about going to a different place, earlier, to make sure we get the mind-set right of our team and our players. "The luxurious part of it has gone. We are going to go to an army boot camp to work our socks off and generate what we are going to be up against. I have gone in and done that." It must be hoped it will help address what Holloway says was a lack of team spirit that cost City dearly in their failed relegation battle. Holloway told BBC Sport: "It's always the team with the worst spirit and fight that goes down. "I have to say, very harshly, it must have been us. That's unacceptable." Meanwhile, Iain Dowie, the former Charlton, Crystal Palace and Coventry manager who has been heavily linked with City over the last 15 months, is one of the favourites for the vacancy at QPR. Dowie, who had a brief spell as caretaker-manager at Loftus Road in 1998, is being tipped to take over following coach Luigi De Canio's exit. Well, I agree with that 100% Our players have given little in the determination stakes over the season. If we played the 46 leauge games like we played against Stoke we would not be going down, that says it all, bunch of useless emotionless koonts. I am unsure weather Ian should stay or go as I was so disappointed with him at Stoke and his lack of ambition and substitutions in the 86th minute! He probably would get us up, then again we should go up from that division IF we have the right attitude, having said that, if we had the right attitude this season we would not have gone down! I give up
Benji Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 my opinion on the matter is keep him, i see little point in getting rid for league 1, nothing will change if we keep swapping managers and no half decent replacement will take his place, people should get it into their heads we are a shit football club at the moment and talks of Ian 'i've done fk all except one season at palace' Dowie, who, may I add, has been unemployed for some time for a reason.
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Ollie's Army! I'll have the million in the bank and a bit of stability please. ...and that's what 80% of you lot wanted three weeks ago.
Kilworthfox Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Ollie's Army!I'll have the million in the bank and a bit of stability please. ...and that's what 80% of you lot wanted three weeks ago. Arrrrrrgh why were those 3 subs (Fryatt, Campbell and A Chambers) not introduced at 65 minutes when they came out to warm up????????? I would still want him here but don't understand why he was relying on Sheff Utd to do us a favour rather than get a goal and relegate Kov
ibbosuk Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Holloway is set to meet the City chairman on Monday, where his fate following relegation to League One is likely to be decided. Holloway said: "I have a record of getting people RELEGATED. "I have done it once before and I am desperate for the chance to do it AGAIN. O.K. Ollie darling your in................ :laugh:
kyleolly Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Give him a chance hes made a few tactical errors since hes been here but i'd give him a chance to rectify the situation but if its looking bleak around october cheerio ollie. I also think he should have his wages cut by 25%.
Guest Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Meanwhile, Iain Dowie, the former Charlton, Crystal Palace and Coventry manager who has been heavily linked with City over the last 15 months, is one of the favourites for the vacancy at QPR.Dowie, who had a brief spell as caretaker-manager at Loftus Road in 1998, is being tipped to take over following coach Luigi De Canio's exit. Thank fook for that.
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Arrrrrrgh why were those 3 subs (Fryatt, Campbell and A Chambers) not introduced at 65 minutes when they came out to warm up?????????I would still want him here but don't understand why he was relying on Sheff Utd to do us a favour rather than get a goal and relegate Kov As I said on the phone - if he had pushed for the goal and we'd conceeded then he'd have been hammered for that as well. It was a lose-lose situation for him and he gambled. He gambled and lost. Our squad would have collectively dropped its head if we'd conceeded. It pissed me off we did nothing for the win when we knew Soton were in front but chances were good Sheffield would pull another goal against 10 men. It wasn't how I wanted to see us play - and I'll be ****ing furious if it is the style he adopts next season, but I don't believe he will. It's a believe grounded in nothing. Blind faith. Uless a decent alternative is presented to me - and there isn't one yet.
Kilworthfox Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 As I said on the phone - if he had pushed for the goal and we'd conceeded then he'd have been hammered for that as well. It was a lose-lose situation for him and he gambled. He gambled and lost. Our squad would have collectively dropped its head if we'd conceeded. It pissed me off we did nothing for the win when we knew Soton were in front but chances were good Sheffield would pull another goal against 10 men. It wasn't how I wanted to see us play - and I'll be ****ing furious if it is the style he adopts next season, but I don't believe he will. It's a believe grounded in nothing. Blind faith. Uless a decent alternative is presented to me - and there isn't one yet. To me though he didn't! If he had gambled we should have brought on at least 2 strikers replacing Hayles for sure and gone for a goal, not expecting Sheff Utd to do us a favour. That to me was a gamble, which let the situation go from our hands and into Southampton's where as before the game we had it in our hands. Bitterly disappointed about that decision! On the positive side I would like stability! I like Penrice and hope he has some good players with desire to play for us. But I don't want to see this kind of lack of leadership from our manager.
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 I like Penrice and hope he has some good players with desire to play for us. This is the only main problem I have with the management team - you read Holloway's book and 'Pen' Penrice comes across as a goal-scoring guru, a man who would be able to teach Elvis to find the net. But he didn't and he hasn't...and it's left me wondering what the **** he offers LCFC seeing as it was him that recommended the signings we got. I think he let us down.
Kilworthfox Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 This is the only main problem I have with the management team - you read Holloway's book and 'Pen' Penrice comes across as a goal-scoring guru, a man who would be able to teach Elvis to find the net.But he didn't and he hasn't...and it's left me wondering what the **** he offers LCFC seeing as it was him that recommended the signings we got. I think he let us down. he is head of recruitment not head of teaching the unteachable! I think you would struggle to teach that twat to score let alone stay on side. Penrice would have brought in or recommended most of the players we have brought in under Holloway, most probably the Huns and lower leauge players like "Ring my Bell" and Anita Ward David Bell's favourite song & it's not camp!
Daggers Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 he is head of recruitment not head of teaching the unteachable! I think you would struggle to teach that twat to score let alone stay on side.Penrice would have brought in or recommended most of the players we have brought in under Holloway, most probably the Huns and lower leauge players like "Ring my Bell" and Anita Ward David Bell's favourite song & it's not camp! Huns?
Kilworthfox Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 Huns? h h h h her her Hungarians G G G Granville F F F F fetch me cloth
hazytex Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 "Give him a chance hes made a few tactical errors since hes been here but i'd give him a chance to rectify the situation but if its looking bleak around october cheerio ollie. I also think he should have his wages cut by 25%." Losers do not deserve a second chance. He got us relegated - get a grip.
Cheese Me Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 For me all depends on the alternatives. I'm not fully convinced we'd be able to attract anyone markedly better right now. Ollie knows the squad and is hopefully desperate to rectify the situation, he's also made his mistakes which a new manager inevitably will so I can see scope for keepng him and giving him another shot at it. However if MM genuinely is able to get in a stronger alternative - Ince perhaps, can't think of too many others off the top of my head - then I'm afraid Ollie should go. I do quite like the guy but if we did decide to get rid he'd have to accept that so far he hasn't been good enough.
Father Ted Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GET US BACK UP - OLLIE CITY NEWS BY ANDY MANN WWW.THEBLUEARMY.CO.UK 08:30 - 10 May 2008 Ian Holloway will appeal for the chance to lead Leicester City's League One challenge when he holds showdown talks with Milan Mandaric. Holloway is set to meet the City chairman on Monday, where his fate following relegation to League One is likely to be decided. Holloway will state his case to lead City next season, pointing to the Championship promotion he won with QPR in 2004 as evidence that he knows what it takes to get out of the division. Holloway said: "I have a record of getting people back out of this division. "I have done it once before and I am desperate for the chance to do it here. "These sort of decisions are not in my hands. There are bigger things at stake than Ian Holloway, it's not about my future. This is about Leicester City." The Mercury reported earlier this week that fans' groups are split on whether Holloway should remain as City boss, while 61 per cent of supporters in an online poll at www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk say he should go. Despite the question marks hanging over his Walkers Stadium future, it seems Holloway has already begun planning for next season. Holloway said he has made changes to City's pre-season plans in a bid to get the players' "mind-set right" for the club's first ever season in the third division. And that will include putting the players through a punishing pre-season schedule at an army boot camp. Holloway said: "We had a meeting about pre-season. Looking at that, we were going to go to a place that is a bit too expensive now. "I don't feel that's the right sort of mind-set. "We are talking about going to a different place, earlier, to make sure we get the mind-set right of our team and our players. "The luxurious part of it has gone. We are going to go to an army boot camp to work our socks off and generate what we are going to be up against. I have gone in and done that." It must be hoped it will help address what Holloway says was a lack of team spirit that cost City dearly in their failed relegation battle. Holloway told BBC Sport: "It's always the team with the worst spirit and fight that goes down. "I have to say, very harshly, it must have been us. That's unacceptable." Meanwhile, Iain Dowie, the former Charlton, Crystal Palace and Coventry manager who has been heavily linked with City over the last 15 months, is one of the favourites for the vacancy at QPR. Dowie, who had a brief spell as caretaker-manager at Loftus Road in 1998, is being tipped to take over following coach Luigi De Canio's exit. Fcuk off Worzel! And if he's trying to make an excuse about the team spirit - he should be bloody motivating them!
volpeazzurro Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 For me all depends on the alternatives.I'm not fully convinced we'd be able to attract anyone markedly better right now. Ollie knows the squad and is hopefully desperate to rectify the situation, he's also made his mistakes which a new manager inevitably will so I can see scope for keepng him and giving him another shot at it. However if MM genuinely is able to get in a stronger alternative - Ince perhaps, can't think of too many others off the top of my head - then I'm afraid Ollie should go. I do quite like the guy but if we did decide to get rid he'd have to accept that so far he hasn't been good enough. 'He knows the Squad' - What sort of a reason is that for keeping him? He knew them and got them relegated. 'Desparate to rectify the situation' - I bet he is on his wages, better than being unemployed. Get rid of Crusty the Clown the big useless stiff! Please don't let us reward failure!
tsmiggy Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 I think in the short term at least he should stay.Maybe force him to add clauses into his contract,so if he does want to chance to make amends then its at a cost to him.It will not take many games in League one to know if things are not right.If after a pre determined amount of games things are not working,then sack him.
Mark Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 I think in the short term at least he should stay.Maybe force him to add clauses into his contract,so if he does want to chance to make amends then its at a cost to him.It will not take many games in League one to know if things are not right.If after a pre determined amount of games things are not working,then sack him. Problem is we've then wasted another season, and I can't see Ollie having any success unless he builds a new squad and sells some of the non performing players he brought in.
ithuriel Posted 10 May 2008 Posted 10 May 2008 get rid , wanted rid of him by the end of january but poeple said stability , look where we've stabilised at the guy is useless.
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